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- 1 A surname.
- 2 A nickname, given to someone of very good character.
- 3 A nickname, given to someone of extreme religiosity.
- 1 A deceased person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue.
"The Roman Catholic Church proclaimed Kateri Tekakwitha a saint in 2012."
- 2 A title given to a saint, often prefixed to the person's name.
"Saint Stephen was the first martyr."
- 3 model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal wordnet
- 4 One of the blessed in heaven.
"Then ſhall thy Saints unmixt, and from th' impure / Farr ſeparate, circling thy holy Mount / Unfained Halleluiahs to thee ſing,"
- 5 A Latter-day Saint, a Mormon. Mormonism
"the Kirtland Saints"
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- 6 a person of exceptional holiness wordnet
- 7 A Christian; a faithful believer in the present world.
"Unto the Church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus, called to be Saints, with all that in euery place call vpon the Name of Iesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours."
- 8 Someone connected with any of the sports teams known as the Saints, such as a player or coach, or sometimes a fan.
"In 1971, during Archie Manning's first game as a New Orleans Saint and the season opener against the Los Angeles Rams, […]"
- 9 a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization wordnet
- 10 Alternative letter-case form of Saint (“a Mormon, a Latter-day Saint”). Mormonism, alt-of, specifically
- 11 Saint class, a class of steam locomotives used on the GWR. UK
- 12 A person with similarly overwhelming positive qualities; one who does good. broadly, figuratively
"Dorothy Day was a living saint."
- 13 A holy object. archaic
"It is ruine to a man to deuoure ſaintes, and afterward to retracte the vowes."
- 1 Capitalized and placed before another term, particularly personal names, to create placename without direct association to any religious character. morpheme
- 1 Synonym of canonize: to honor, formally name, or revere as a saint. transitive
"Many Catholics wished to see Pope John Paul II sainted immediately after his death."
- 2 declare (a dead person) to be a saint wordnet
- 3 hold sacred wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English saint, seint, sainct, seinct, sanct, senct, partly from Old English sanct (“saint”) and confluence with Old French saint, seinte (Modern French saint); both from Latin sānctus (“holy, consecrated”, in Late Latin as a noun, “a saint”), past participle of sancīre (“to render sacred, make holy”), akin to sacer (“holy, sacred”). Doublet of Sanctus. Displaced native Middle English halwe (“saint”) from Old English hālga (“saint, holy one”) (> Modern English hallow (“saint”)).
From Middle English saynten, seinten, sonten, partly from Anglo-Norman saintir and partly from the noun Middle English seint, seynt (see above).
From the pattern of naming various parishes and other places for Christian saints.
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